Dennis Baron
@drgrammar.bsky.social
I write about language and … language and law (free speech and regulation); gender (pronouns!); tech (how tech affects readers and writers); language reform; and language policing. All from a historical perspective.
Here, I fixed it for you: The near extinction of copy editors continues to have severe consequences.
November 29, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Here, I fixed it for you: The near extinction of copy editors continues to have severe consequences.
The question is moot.
November 6, 2025 at 8:29 PM
The question is moot.
Plus I am anxious about the future.
November 5, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Plus I am anxious about the future.
Video capture of the Böcker Agilo descending with two thieves and the loot.
October 23, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Video capture of the Böcker Agilo descending with two thieves and the loot.
beats me why the 🐝 won't accept eocene.
October 16, 2025 at 12:51 AM
beats me why the 🐝 won't accept eocene.
Now that I've had time to check here's what I wrote back in 1990. BTW, in a conference talk I gave about this in the 1980s, session chair John Algeo, who was then editor of American Speech, changed my title from "A historic..." to "An historic." Which only goes to show how entrenched this was.
October 14, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Now that I've had time to check here's what I wrote back in 1990. BTW, in a conference talk I gave about this in the 1980s, session chair John Algeo, who was then editor of American Speech, changed my title from "A historic..." to "An historic." Which only goes to show how entrenched this was.
he may have even written "an Chasidic Jew"
October 14, 2025 at 1:29 AM
he may have even written "an Chasidic Jew"
Was it Jimmy Breslin in The Gang that Couldn't Shoot Straight who wrote the phrase "an Hasidic Jew"?
October 14, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Was it Jimmy Breslin in The Gang that Couldn't Shoot Straight who wrote the phrase "an Hasidic Jew"?
It's that old marketplace of ideas, where the shopkeeper always has a thumb on the scale.
October 3, 2025 at 12:11 AM
It's that old marketplace of ideas, where the shopkeeper always has a thumb on the scale.
not to mention the 1% of atheists who are expecting him any minute. but sure. whatever.
September 29, 2025 at 12:17 AM
not to mention the 1% of atheists who are expecting him any minute. but sure. whatever.